Yury Panchenko

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| fullname = Yuriy Petrovych Panchenko

| nickname = Юрій Петрович Панченко

| nationality = Russian, Ukrainian

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| birth_place = Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

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| nationalyears = 1979–1988

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Yuriy Petrovych Panchenko ({{langx|uk|Юрій Петрович Панченко}}, born 5 February 1959) is a Ukrainian-born Russian coach and former volleyball player{{Cite magazine |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/10/volleyball-west-bests-east-the-us-men-spiked-their-rivals-and-drinking-buddies-the-soviets-for-the-gold |magazine=Sports Illustrated |title=West Bests East |last=Anderson |first=Bruce |date=10 October 1988 |publisher=Time |location=New York City |access-date=25 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803130031/https://vault.si.com/vault/1988/10/10/volleyball-west-bests-east-the-us-men-spiked-their-rivals-and-drinking-buddies-the-soviets-for-the-gold |archive-date=3 August 2020 |url-status=live }} who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.{{Cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53196 |website=Olympedia |title=Yury Panchenko |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430071615/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/53196 |archive-date=30 April 2024 |url-status=live }}

Career

Born in Kiev, Panchenko debuted for Lokomotiv Kiev and, aged twenty, he moved to Soviet Union's most renowned team, VC CSKA Moscow: with this team he won nine Soviet championships, three Soviet Cups, six European Champions Cups (1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989), and two European Supercups (1987 and 1988). In 1980, he was part of the Soviet team which won the gold medal in the Olympic tournament. He also won the world title in Argentina in 1982.

Eight years later, Panchenko won the silver medal with the Soviet team in the 1988 Olympic tournament. In 1989, he was the first Soviet military allowed to play in a foreign country, when he moved to Conad Ravenna in Italy. The following year Panchenko moved to Moka Rica Forlì, where he remained until ending his career in 1994.